Asymmetric dynamics of insurance premium: The impacts of output and economic policy uncertainty

Rangan Gupta, Amine Lahiani (), Chi-Chuan Lee and Chien-Chiang Lee ()
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Amine Lahiani: LEO (UMR CNRS 7322), Université d’Orléans, Orléans, France and Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France

No 201673, Working Papers from University of Pretoria, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the asymmetric and nonlinear transmission of real output and economic policy uncertainty to insurance premiums for the US economy over the annual period of 1980-2014. Using most up-to-date nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags (NARDL) framework developed by Shin et al. (2014), we simultaneously examine short- and long-run asymmetric responses of the insurance premiums through positive and negative partial sum decompositions of changes in the explanatory variables. Our empirical results reveal that real output and economic policy uncertainty affect insurance premiums in an asymmetric and nonlinear manner, but the transmission mechanism is not the same. As to the impact of real output, we find that an increase in real output leads to enhancing the insurance premiums, while a decrease in output has a greater impact causing insurance premiums to move down. For the impact of economic policy uncertainty, the results also suggest that total and non-life insurance premiums increase with uncertainty increases, while life insurance premiums decrease with uncertainty increases. These results have significant implications for insurance-related econometric analysis, investment decisions, forecasting, and policy-making.

Keywords: Insurance premiums; Real output; Economic policy uncertainty; NARDL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 F42 G22 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2016-10
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